Το άρχειον του μυκηναϊκού ανακτόρου των Θηβών
Part of : Αρχαιολογικά ανάλεκτα εξ Αθηνών ; Vol.III, No.3, 1970, pages 322-327
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The palace archives of boeotian Thebes
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Αρχαιολογικά χρονικά
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A very fruitful excavation was carried out in the middle of the town of Thebes during February of this year ( see Prof. Spyr. Marinatos, AAA III (1970), 62 - 63 and fig. 3).In the field excavated ( see Plan 1, no 3 and Plan 2 ) part of the Mycenaean Palace was brought to light. This consists of two rooms with a general orientation from East to West, divided by a wall of sun - dried bricks, coated with a reddish mud - plaster and measuring 0.90 m. in thickness and 1.60 m. in (preserved) height.The bath - room of the Palace is the more Northerly of the two rooms, because we found in it, near the wall of sun - dried bricks, a clay bath - tub of the άσάμινθος type ( see the similar bath - tub from the Palace of Nestor in Pylos in C.W. Biegen, The Palace of Nestor, I, 2, 1966, Pis. 139, 140). The next room to the South proved to be part of the Palace Archives. From thefragments found of the tablets, in Linear B, twenty complete or near complete tablets have been reconstructed. The pottery found in the room of the archives is of the greatest importance in determining both the time when the main Palace was destroyed ( by earthquake and then by fire ) and also' the age of the tablets. Most of this pottery (figs. 1 - 3 ) dates, in my opinion, to the closing years of the ceramic phase LH IIIB.All the tablets found list the commodity «wool». Their shape is that of the palm - leaf, with one exception, which is of deltoid form. They contain two and three linear signs and as a whole they will shed new light on the study of the Mycenaean Greek texts. I give above the text of one of the tablets (fig. 4 ) which shows the importance of the new texts found in the Palace of Thebes.
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